From £1,099 FROM apple.com/uk FEATURES Apple M3 chip, 8GB unified memory (16GB/24GB available), 13.6in Liquid Retina display (2560x1664), 256GB storage (512GB/1TB/2TB available), Wi-Fi 6E (aka 802.11ax Wi-Fi), Bluetooth 5.3, 2x Thunderbolt/USB 4 port

Q Storage on my NAS is now completely full of my old Time Machine backups. As I’ve just got a new iMac, how can I start again with fresh backups? by DAVID HIGNETT A This is a good time to consider replacing the hard drives currently in your NAS syst

IT WILL TAKE 20 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to design and edit a variety of artwork options YOU’LL NEED Canva (Free, IAPs), iPadOS 13 or later Canva is one of the most useful art and design apps on the iPad, thanks to its ease of use and sheer flexib

IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes YOU WILL LEARN To create and share collaborative playlists YOU’LL NEED All those you’re sharing with to have an Apple Music subscription If you don’t want other people to add to or re-order your playlist, don’t use the collab

Picking a winner was tough, but there were a few keyboards we could rule out. The Satechi Slim X3 had a few too many lapses to come out on top. The Logitech MX Mechanical Mini and the Satechi SM1 Slim are decent, but neither did enough to beat out t

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These days, we rely on our home networks more than ever, especially when working wirelessly, remotely or from home. Macs are easy to connect to home networks with Wi-Fi, but you can still encounter problems. Here we explore some of the more common i

Desktop speakers are increasingly rare, which is why we’re celebrating the arrival of Edifier’s QR65 Active Desktop Monitors. Capable of belting out your tunes at a staggering 70W, and in old-school stereo too, they’ll look great parked on either si

The European Union (EU) has recently forced Apple to open up its ecosystem to third-party app stores, essentially allowing users to ‘sideload’ apps onto their devices, mostly outside of Apple’s control. At first it seemed that this new policy would b

IT WILL TAKE 5 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to raise your Mac’s brightness for consistent HDR visuals YOU’LL NEED (getvivid. app), macOS 12 or later Vivid app Modern Mac displays can go super-bright, but only when HDR content is involved. Fortunately,

Having just been snapped up by Canva, Serif’s popular suite of design apps has been updated to version 2.4, and this brings a range of new features to Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher. Among the new features is the introduction of Layer States

IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes YOU WILL LEARN To customise faces and complications YOU’LL NEED Watchsmith app, watchOS 8 or later; Facer app, watchOS 7 or later We love the Apple Watch, but sometimes we wish there that was more customisation than Apple allo

Q Each family member has their own folder in Users > Shared on our main Mac for sharing documents. Although set to give everyone read and write access, when they save new files there others can’t write to them. How can we change permissions to allow

Once you’ve edited rambling raw footage into a short, slick sequence – complete with titles and transitions – you can add an extra level of postproduction polish to make your show stand out from the social media crowd. Due to different lighting scen

IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to try out AI photo editing with various software YOU’LL NEED Adobe Photoshop 2024, macOS 10.14 or later AI – artificial intelligence – is changing the way we edit photos. For example, Adobe Photoshop 2024 u

Hot on the heels of the Vision Pro come rumours that Apple is already working on its Next Big Thing – and its robots that Cupertino may have set it sights on. The company is rumoured to be working on two possible options: an AI-powered robot that fol

IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes YOU WILL LEARN You’ll learn how Yuka can help you shop YOU’LL NEED Yuka app (Free, IAPs), iOS 13 or later Yuka automatically adds all of its food and cosmetic recommendations to the Recommended tab, but you can remove any you

Last month, we covered how Apple’s much-rumoured electric car project had been cancelled. Well, Apple has apparently found a new “next big thing” to replace the car with, and we guarantee it’s nothing like what you’re expecting. If a new report from

The Apple Watch has an abundance of apps. No, really, believe us, it does. While it may feel at times that the device is not as well served as the iPhone, iPad and Mac (and, in truth, it isn’t), the App Store is actually very healthy these days with

If a file is stored in iCloud Drive, you’ll be able to access it from any Apple device that’s signed into your Apple account, and computer or mobile device with a web browser by logging into iCloud.com and signing in. To access your iCloud Drive fro

In October 2023, Apple updated its only iMac – the 24in model, so that it now benefits from Apple’s also newly-released M3 chip. You can now choose between an 8-core CPU/8-core GPU at the entry-level, or an 8-core CPU/10-core GPU on the mid-range and

> Number of attendees at WWDC 2019 – the last fully in-person event before the pandemic. Delegates came from 86 countries to San Jose in California. > Number of delegates who attended the 2006 WWDC, where Apple said goodbye to the PowerPC processor a

Shooting videos on your iPhone is so easy these days that it’s tempting to be a bit blasé about it. But with a little know-how, some video editing skills, and additional third-party film-making accessories, you can turn ordinary clips of your pets, f

Your in-depth guide to getting more from your Apple kit Email your queries and your questions to letters@macformat.com Cmd is the Command key. Alt or Opt is the Option key. Ctrl is the Control key, also shown as ‘^’ in shortcuts in the menu bar. The